The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 175

But the King’s son had been pondering over all these things, and he said to the widow woman:

Who acts: son · What happens: ponder, say · To what, where: things, widow woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 pondering	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pondering	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pondering	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 pondering	aux
8	pondering	ponder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 things	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 things	det:predet
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 things	det
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pondering	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pondering	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 woman	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 woman	compound
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 pondering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ponder	past · perfect · progressive	the King's son			all things			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	son		the widow woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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